21.06 June Issue Highlights (WIRED Unveils New Look)

Imagine a house with a nervous system, where coffee pots talk to alarm clocks and thermostats talk to motion sensors. Intelligence once locked in our devices can now flow into the universe of physical objects. In time, this network of objects will be choreographed to respond to our needs, enable our dreams, and even save our lives. This is the language of the future.

Connected sensors are watching and listening, turning analog signals into data. The rumble of volcanic magma, the height of ocean waves, the reverberations of a concussion, the presence of cyclists in car traffic. __WIRED profiles the trackers, monitors and detectors used to inform a safer, more predictable world. __

__Drugstore Cowboy/ pg. 156__David Anthony Whitaker made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online. Then he got caught. To reduce his prison sentence, Whitaker set out to implicate the company that helped him do it: Google. __How a career con man pulled off a federal sting that cost the world’s most popular search engine $500 million, one of the largest corporate forfeitures in U.S. history. __

Self-assured neuroscientist Henry Markram says he can build a supercomputer replica of the vastly complex human brain – an insanely ambitious project that has bedeviled AI researchers for decades. __Now he has $1.3 billion in funding to prove it. __

Team Oracle boss Larry Ellison’s America’s Cup race was going to be the biggest, most spectacular sailing event in history. Then his badass $10 million AC72 capsized in San Francisco Bay, showing just how fragile the catamaran – and the event itself – really is.Has the ultrafast machine’s very power and efficiency become its own worst enemy?

PLUS__:__ A look inside the world’s first steer-by-wire car. (pg. 32); Q&A with Brian K. Vaughan, executive producer__ of newCBS summer series Under the Dome. (pg. 69); Party like an A-lister at these music festivals. (pg. 66);__ Matthew Inman makes an art of online vigilantism with popular web comic The Oatmeal.__ (pg. 53); Google’slatest Chromebook is stunning, but that’s not enough.__ (pg. 134)

And so much more__: __Top 3 featherweight ultrabooks. (pg. 114); Essentials for the perfect cup of joe. (pg. 118); Best commute gear to arrive at the office in style. (pg. 130)